5th Grade Science Quiz: What Do You Know About Weather?
59 Questions
| Attempts: 295
The atmosphere of the earth is quite interesting and most of the weather occurs in the lower layer if the atmosphere. We experience different weather patterns throughout a calendar year and we have gotten to understand how to predict and read extent of a condition. Take this 5th grade quiz and find out what you know about the weather.
Questions and Answers
- 1.A stationary front moves back and forth over different areas.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.A storm that often starts with strong, quickly rising currents of moist air.
- A.
Tornado
- B.
Hurricane
- C.
Thunderstorm
- 3.Air pressure _____________ (increases or decreases) as you go up in altitude.
- 4.Air that forms and air mass has similar properties throughout it.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Bodies of water become warm and coll more _______than land.
- A.
Quickly
- B.
Slowly
- 6.Climates change as much as the daily weather does.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Climates usually change quickly.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Convection currents can cause pattens of warm air and cold air.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Convection currents can cause patterns of warm air and precipitation.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Different areas of a thunderstorm cloud have positive and negative electrical charges.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.Forecasters look for patterns of weather change to predict future weather.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Forecasters make predictions based on information about past weather conditions.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Fronts are never in areas of low pressure.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Cold fronts bring precipitation.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.Fronts occur in areas of ______pressure. (high or low)
- 16.Fronts occur along the left side of air masses.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Heavy precipitation often falls at a ___________ front (warm or cold)
- 18.Higher land is
- A.
Cooler
- B.
Warmer
- 19.How many layers are in the Earth's atmosphere?
- 20.In a convection current, gases or liquids rise and sink in a circular path.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.In cold fronts, warmer air gradually rises above cooler air.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.In the US, fronts generally move from west to east.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.Jet streams are ______ winds that are formed near the Earth's surface. (fast or slow)
- 24.Jetstreams are high above the ground between huge convection currents
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.Measures how much rain has fallen
- A.
Radar
- B.
Hectormeter
- C.
Rain gauge
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